Salome

Red-hot theater-maker Lileana Blain-Cruz creates an immersive theatrical work-in-progress experience around the story of Salome, inspired loosely by the Oscar Wilde play, the Strauss opera, The Rite of Spring, Rihanna, Miley Cyrus, Paris is Burning, and The Bible. SALOME explores the gladiator sport of watching a young girl transform into sex symbol and mad woman in the midst of an imminent apocalypse. Eating! Dancing! Sweating! Prophesies! Confetti! A beheading! It’s a birthday party!Tickets: $15

LILEANA BLAIN-CRUZ is a director from New York City and Miami. Recent projects include Branden Jacobs-Jenkins play War at Yale Repertory Theater, Much Ado About Nothing at Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Christina Anderson’s Hollow Roots at the Under the Radar Festival at The Public Theater, a new translation of The Bakkhai at the Fisher Center of Performing Arts at Bard College, and A Guide to Kinship and Maybe Magic, a collaboration with Jacobs-Jenkins and choreographer Isabel Lewis at Dance New Amsterdam. She is the co-founder and director of the ensemble company Overhead Projector, which devises new work. She was an Artistic Associate of The Exchange and The Orchard Project, a member of the Lincoln Center Director’s Lab, and a NYTW 2050 fellow. Her next project is Lucas Hnath’s Red Speedo at New York Theater Workshop.

This presentation is funded in part by a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant.